@swaggboi .

Don’t run away.. hear me out. Think about how good is with organizing music files. The files are still in a filesystem but iTunes manages them. The directory structure is a product of the metadata standard & they are kept in sync. If a track is in the genre “techno” & you decide it’s more accurately described as “electronica/trance/psychedelic”, you refine the genre in the iTunes db, which the updates the ID3 tag & moves the file from e.g. ~/music/techno to ~/music/electronica/trance/psychedelic. When you are outside iTunes, the directory structure is sensible & intuitive. When you are inside iTunes, you can search, filter, & organize based on metadata.

So you asked about PDFs as an example. I ditched iTunes (& mac & windows entirely) at one point, but at least back in the day you could (ab)use ID3 tags for PDFs since they don’t break the PDF for whatever reason. Some people then used iTunes to organize their PDFs (likely books) in that way.

So I’m not saying install iTunes.. it may not even work these days.. no idea. But the point is iTunes sets a good example of how media can be well organized.

I’ve not used in a while but perhaps it has improved. Might be worth a look.

I did my own hack. I use exiftool to set the metadata using the standard PDF fields. Then I wrote a script that created an email header from the PDF metadata and then used the procmail language to put the file through a series of conditionals & scoring & ultimately drop the file in a well-organized location. It’s a use procmail was not intended for yet strangely useful for objects that have nothing to do with email. I got side-tracked and didn’t finish the project but that’s just to give an idea of what’s possible.

Today I still manually maintain a directory structure, my metadata is a mess, and whenever I move or rename a file references to that file from apps like gnucash end up inconsistent. So I still need to get my shit together.

@jmhorner @unlofl @piggo @purple @i

#itunes #id3 #calibre #procmail

Last updated 1 year ago

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 · @grumpybozo
145 followers · 7631 posts · Server toad.social

: BuGless resumed maintenance of quietly in 2020 and released a version with all reported bugs fixed last year.

So at last, decades of procrastination have paid off. I no longer am overdue translating my procmailrc to . I no longer have to warn people not to make my blunder, I can point them at a working maintained tool.

#til #procmail #sieve

Last updated 2 years ago

David Cantrell · @DrHyde
110 followers · 199 posts · Server fosstodon.org

I've been procrastinating for *years* about migrating my mail server to new hardware. Well, today I crossed one of the tasks off my to-do list. I didn't actually do it, I just no longer care about the bidirectional gateway I wrote so that I could read Usenet in . It was a tangled mess of config, and that worked brilliantly for almost 20 years, but today I just deleted it and all its config.

#email #usenet #mutt #exim #procmail #perl

Last updated 2 years ago

· @koherecoWatchdog
183 followers · 4338 posts · Server freeradical.zone

@shahaan @darnell Another approach would be to have encrypt all inbound msgs before delivery, and to the MUA all msgs would be PGP msgs. Or that could be done by a mail forwarding service. AFAIK, there is only one mail forwarding service that does that: .com. You give anonaddy.com your PGP, and it will encrypt everything that it sends to you.

#procmail #AnonAddy

Last updated 2 years ago

Bazza · @bazza
478 followers · 4880 posts · Server mograph.social

¿Algún notificador de nuevos mails tipo + -send pero fácil de configurar?

#notify #procmail

Last updated 2 years ago

Activist · @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo
258 followers · 2118 posts · Server activism.openworlds.info

@akib @dachary @forgefriends @hostea @forgefed @gitea @codeberg Since you mention a list (assuming you mean mailing list?), how about this hybrid of all ideas: bug reports/comments go to an account that checks the sig (perhaps using a script). If the sig checks out, the msg is automatically submitted via to the upstream git db. If the sig fails or is non-existent, the msg goes to a mailing list.

#procmail #gitbug

Last updated 2 years ago

· @bojkotiMalbona
111 followers · 1137 posts · Server infosec.exchange

@kytta Ideally, files should have metadata & there should be a tool that enforces consistency between the metadata and the file structure. My personal free-world hack is to use for this, surprisingly enough. A script can pkg any file as an email and create faux email headers from the metadata, and then a procmail script serves to direct where the file goes.

#procmail

Last updated 3 years ago

qbi · @qbi
2051 followers · 6108 posts · Server mastodon.social

Nutzt jemand von euch noch ? Es wäre an der Zeit, sich mal nach einer anderen Software umzuschauen:
anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procm

#procmail

Last updated 3 years ago

Steven Saus [he/him] · @StevenSaus
344 followers · 7129 posts · Server faithcollapsing.com

From 31 Jan: Timo’s procmail tips and recipes - cayfer.bilkent.edu.tr/~cayfer/

#server #procmail #linux #email

Last updated 5 years ago

Thomas Kujawa · @thomaskujawa
130 followers · 2867 posts · Server social.tchncs.de

Ich habe gerade den Blogbeitrag zu unserem Umgang mit aktualisiert.

blondiedenkt.blogspot.com/2018

Wenn Ihr Tipps für einen Freizeit-Admin habt, immer her damit.

#spam #abuseipdb #procmail #outlook #imap #pop3 #osticket

Last updated 6 years ago